Connecting with Ursula on the ancestral plane
Some ancestors call out to me more than others. Of course, if I could time travel back to their eras, I would want to meet every single one of them. But there are some I would want to spend a...
View ArticleRe-examining the records: Aleksandr and Józef
Look, and look again. No matter how many times you've pored over some genealogical resource, whether it's a document, or a photograph, or some random bit of memorabilia connected to an ancestor's life,...
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My grandfather Aleksandr and his half-brother Józef who was really his cousin
My grandfathers' lives and relationships continue to surprise me. Almost exactly one year ago, I discovered that my paternal grandfather, Julian Prokopowicz (1895-1951), had fellow-immigrant cousins in...
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Belarus-Lida Region and Prokopowicz surname Family Tree DNA projects
One benefit of testing with Family Tree DNA is that it hosts thousands of projects—7,620 at last count, devoted to surnames and geographic areas large and small. Joining a project allows you to view...
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75% Eastern European DNA? Sounds about right to me
I am 99.9% European. I would have guessed that, even if I had never spit into tiny vials for autosomal DNA analysis. Test results from 23andMe confirmed it, though, and took me a step further with its...
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My grandparents' haplogroups: N1c1 & R1a1 Y-DNA; T2b & H27 mtDNA
There is a lot to be said about all the DNA tests my family members and I have taken over the past three years. I am certain of this from all the probing questions and insightful answers that other...
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Exactly how Polish is my DNA?
My grandparents, and their parents before them, and their parents before them, all lived in Wilno. In their time, Wilno was one of the western provinces of the Russian Empire; earlier, Wilno was the...
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Discovering Julian Prokopowicz’s Bogdan family in America
Almost everything I thought I knew about my paternal grandfather’s early years in the United States was wrong. And I am happy that I was wrong.I knew that Julian Prokopowicz, age 19, planned to stay...
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Exploring human evolution and migration through DNA is genealogy writ large
I read a lot of nonfiction related in one way or another to genealogy and my personal family research. And I watch just about anything on television that connects to genealogy or my ancestral roots....
View ArticleThe incredible good karma of genealogy Listservs
It's easy to take Listservs for granted in genealogy. There are countless numbers of them online, devoted to every conceivable aspect of family history research. They are free (and conventional...
View ArticleGetting acquainted with twenty new ancestral lines
My blog could probably use a new subtitle. "Reseaching the genealogy of the Prokopowicz, Ruśćik, and Blaszko Families" doesn't tell the whole story anymore. Those three surnames identify all four of...
View ArticleThe simple, happy rituals of reorganizing and reassessing 15 years of research
Generations of ancestors surround me while I work on my family history this winter. Some are on the floor, or inside two new storage ottomans, or next to me on the couch in the living room. Others...
View ArticleIn 2010, my genealogical research trumped my genealogical blogging
After a very long absence from Basia's Polish Family, I'm back, with no apologies for my absence, but with an explanation: instead of blogging, I've been researching. Genealogy has reclaimed its...
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Michal Prokopowicz marriage record 1886
Michal Prokopowicz of Poleckiszki (Ejszyszki parish) and Maryanna Kurowska of Pohorodno were married 16 February 1886 in the Ossow parish church, north of Lida. Iwan Szwed is listed among the...
View ArticleSoleczniki Wielkie (Słownik Geograficzny translation)
In the chronicles of the Teutonic Knights, Salseniken or Saletzniken, town and estates on the Solcza River (tributary of the Mereczanka), Wilno district, in the 5th police precinct and the 7th district...
View ArticleBeniakony / Bieniakonie & Butrymańce (Słownik Geograficzny translation)
Bieniakony, a gmina in Lida district, numbers 237 houses, 3,305 peasants of both sexes. Gmina administration in the town of Bieniakonie. The gmina encompasses 4 rural precincts: Gajcieniszki,...
View ArticleHermaniszki (Słownik Geograficzny translation)
3.) Town [in the] Oszmiana district, on the Żyżma River, in the 3rd administrative precinct, at 49 wiorsts in a northwest direction from Oszmiana and 4 wiorsts from Woronów; possesses a wooden...
View ArticleWoronów / Werenów (Słownik Geograficzny translation)
Also spelled Werenów, town and folwark on the Błoczanka (Bołotianka) River, a tributary of the Żyżma, Lida district, in the 2nd police precinct, Bieniakonie gmina (11 wiorsts distance), Woronów rural...
View ArticleOsowo (Słownik Geograficzny translation)
2.) Otherwise Ossowo, church village, called a small town, on a river of the same name, Lida district, in the 2nd police precinct, Aleksandrowa gmina, Horodna [Horodnia] rural district, at 14 wiorsts...
View ArticleTrokiele (Słownik Geograficzny translation)
1.) Treasury folwark, Lida district, in the 1st police precinct, Żyrmuny gmina, Dworzyszcze rural precinct, at 17 wiorsts from Lida, near the road from Lida to Dziewieniszki, has 77 inhabitants, a...
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